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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding ... then the discovery of a corpse in a chest ... next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits ... and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
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And Then There Were None [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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The world's best-selling mystery with over 100 million copies sold! Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die... "Agatha Christie's masterpiece." T... more info>>
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Dumb Witness [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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After an accident on the stairs, Emily becomes convinced that one of her relatives is trying to kill her. On April 17th she writes her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he doesn't receive the letter until June 28th ... by which time Emily is already dead.
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Poirot's Early Cases [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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With his career still in its formative years, we learn many things about how Poirot came to exercise those famous "grey cells" so well. Fourteen of the eighteen stories collected herein are narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings--including what would appear to be the earliest Poirot short story, "The Affair at the Victory Ball," which follows soon on the events of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.Two of the stories are narrated by Poirot himself, to Hastings. One, "The Chocolate Box," concerns Poiro... more info>> 2004
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Three-Act Tragedy [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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The novel opens as a theatre programme, with this telling credit: "Illumination by Hercule Poirot." Light must be shed, indeed, on the fateful dinner party staged by the famous actor Sir Charles Cartwright for thirteen guests. It will be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, whose martini glass, sent for chemical analysis after he chokes on its contents and dies, reveals no trace of poison. Just as there is no apparent motive for his murder. The first ... more info>> 2004
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Mrs. McGinty's Dead [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows--what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger...
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The ABC Murders [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught--until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans... 2003
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Elephants Can Remember [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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The Ravenscrofts didn't seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid ... and yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself--or perhaps it was the other way around, since sets of both of their fingerprints were on the gun, and the gun had fallen between them. The case haunts Ariadne Oliver, who had been a friend of the couple. The famous mystery novelist desires this real-life mystery solved, and calls upon Hercule Poirot to help her do so. Poirot is... more info>> 2004
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Curtain: Poirot's Last Case; 2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot Investigates [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd broke all the rules of detective fiction and made Agatha Christie a household name. There are two things you must do if you know nothing of this book: discuss it with no one, and read it with all speed--because it contains one of the biggest surprises in crime fiction. In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion--and dreadful gossip. There are rumours that she murdered her first husband, that she was being blackmailed, and that her sec... more info>> 2003
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Dead Man's Folly [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain--or get away from. In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot--and her instincts are soon proved correct when the 'pretend' murder victim is discovered playing the scene for real, a rope wrapped tightly around her neck.... But it's the great detective who f... more info>>
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Sad Cypress [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows¿
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The Secret Adversary [Tommy and Tuppence Book 1] [MultiFormat]
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The sinking of the Lusitania is only a taste of the action when Tommy meets Tuppence in World War I England and the two set out together to foil an enemy spy. 1916
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The Body in the Library [A Miss Marple Mystery] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is her connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys turn to Miss Marple to solve the mystery. [eBook exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Body i... more info>> 2003
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Hallowe'en Party [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Agatha Christie
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Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe'en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue--and for being generally unpleasant. But when the girl, Joyce, is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, Mrs Oliver wonders after the fictional nature of the girl's claim that she had once witnessed a murder. Which of the party guests wanted to keep her quiet is a question for Ariadne's friend Hercule Poirot. B... more info>> 2003
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Murder on the Orient Express [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year. But by morning there is one passenger less. A "respectable American gentleman" lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Hercule Poirot is also aboard, having arrived in the nick of time to claim a second-class compartment--and the most astounding case of his illustrious career. Regard... more info>> 2003
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The Big Four [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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Hercule Poirot is preparing for a voyage to South America. Looming in the doorway of his bedroom is an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust and mud. The man's gaunt face registers Poirot for a moment, and then he collapses. The stranger recovers long enough to identify Poirot by name and madly and repeatedly scribble the figure "4" on a piece of paper. Poirot cancels his trip. An investigation is in order. Fortunately, Poirot has the faithful Captain Hastings at his side as he plun... more info>> 2004
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A Caribbean Mystery [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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As Jane Marple sat basking in the tropical sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Then a question was put to her by a stranger: "Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?" Before she has a chance to answer, the man vanishes, only to be found dead the next day. The mysteries abound: Where is the picture? Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn't the most talked-about guest, a reclusive mi... more info>> 2004
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Sleeping Murder [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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Soon after Gwenda Reed moves into her new home, odd things start to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeds in dredging up its past. Worse, she feels an irrational sense of terror every time she climbs the stairs.... In fear, Gwenda turns to Jane Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they are to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.... Of note: Agatha Christie wrote Sleeping Murder during World War II and had it placed in a bank vault for ... more info>> 2004
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Death in the Clouds [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat No. 13, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat No. 8, a writer of detective fiction is being troubled by an aggressive wasp. Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take ... more info>> 2004
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Death on the Nile [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything--until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed....
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After the Funeral [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it--But he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
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And Then There Were None [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is probably the signature novel of one of the best-selling authors of all time, a masterpiece of mystery and suspense that has been a fixture in popular literature since it was published in England in 1939. American readers might know the novel better as Ten Little Indians, the original title under which it was published in the U.S. in 1940. A simple sketch of the plot will remind readers of this enduring tale without robbing the mystery of its delectab... more info>> 2002
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Cat Among the Pigeons [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls' school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing experiment--hospitals, schools, a Health Service--is coming to chaos, knows that he must prepare for the day of his exile. He asks his pilot and school friend, Bob Rawlinson, to care for a packet of jewels. Rawlinson does so, hiding them among the possessions of his nie... more info>> 2004
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The Clocks [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name--yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby nava... more info>> 2004
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